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Andrew Cuomo says he’ll run a third-party bid for New York mayor after losing Democratic primary (www.cnn.com)

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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

they pulled strings to get all the establishment candidates to Voltron into Biden for super Tuesday. I do think they influenced their cohorts in the media to make Bernie look like he couldn't win the general

That very much qualifies as rigging.

I don't believe they messed with the voting process itself

How do you know? They control every part of it and have shown that they're not above board in general 🤷

a good lawyer makes use every argument available.

That's not how it works, no. A good lawyer chooses a coherent strategy that's both likely to be successful and in accordance with the wishes of the client.

The DNC itself has a lot of skilled lawyers and would have agreed on a strategy long before a word was said in court. This was their choice, not that of a neutral lawyer just doing his darndest.

Being neutral is a good idea,

Agreed

but that rule is pretty meaningless

Only when it comes to unprincipled hypocrites who don't care about the spirit of the rules but only how they can bend and break them to further their own agenda.

Is every member required to be personally neutral in even their personal relationships

Only to the extent that those relationships affect the primaries. Which they very much do when you're doing everything you can to favor a specific candidate.

Does that extend to Obama who is neither a board member or on staff at the DNC?

He's still a member of the party, one of if not THE most influential and thus powerful one at that, with more weight behind his words than most. That great power comes with great responsibility

To be clear, I am no apologist for the Democratic establishment

Could have fooled me, what with all that apologia 🙄

I blame them more for Trump than the Republicans

On that we agree, at least.

That's why I want progressives to show up and vote them out in primaries

That would be great, if the DNC would ever allow it.

Giving the ~~false~~ accurate impression that ~~their vote won't count~~ they will be manipulated and cheated is ~~counterproductive~~ the first step in the process of making sure that it will.

Fixed that for you.

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